Monthly Archives: February 2012
Integration into a new culture and coming back home
Whilst in Paris for a few days I was invited by a very good friend of mine to go to one of her friends birthday party in the 18eme arrondissement of Paris! When we arrived we gave “la bise” to all the people already there (they were approximately twelve! ) which took us a little [...]
Perception of beauty – continuing “we are the same and yet we are different”
As mentioned in the previous article, we have our own perceptions of what is beauty and what it means and looks like to be successful in our own culture. We are brought up with some values and ideas of what represents beauty for us ! In the western world for example it could be a [...]
We look the same and yet we are different !
We are all unique in the way we think, we see, we feel, we look like and we perceive. We cannot generalize that because someone is darker colored that this person is African. This person might be actually German or French or Swiss ! We have the tendency as humans to categorize people either through [...]